Returned from travels to Portugal, and find myself here at my desk again, letting words emerge. The experience over three days of sitting all together was like this cool, windy afternoon today, sun and shadow [...]

Feels like summer here these days, me between trips and the temperatures high and the sky blue blue blue. Only the calender doesn't fit in the picture. And what picture might that be? The picture [...]

Here I am at my desk again, fingers poised over the keyboard, no idea what will come next. A thought of something I read the other day about the necessity of great empty space in [...]

Night again. Suddenly I recall that dawn was pink this morning when I looked up while making tea. A terrible smell filled the Métro end to end this afternoon. We all shared it. Later in [...]

Interesting how many news reports are gleefully focusing on the link between the Fukushima nuclear crisis and the defeat of Mrs. Merkel's party in a German state election. Interdependence anyone? What else is new? Myself, [...]

So now after a fine day under blue sky and radiant sun it's evening. I accomplished my daily tasks, at work and at home and in between, trying to listen unconditionally to the sounds of [...]

The "news" from Japan continues to swirl with a dizzying array of disasters. Each shock seems more incredible, more impossible, than the other. Untold numbers of people are facing untold suffering. My heart goes out [...]

Late again, but the moon was such as I looked up from the street tonight that it seemed worth noting here. There were clouds, too, with the crescent slice afloat in the sky a deep [...]